Serena

Starring Andi Matichak (Blumhouse’s Halloween), Steven Strait (Amazon’s The Expanse), and Ashleigh Murray (Hulu’s The Other Black Girl), SERENA is a tension-filled tech-gone-wrong thriller that plunges into the worst-case scenario of an AI chatbot gaining too much power.

Washed-up rock star Chris Sadowski is struggling to stay afloat–his music career is dead, his partner is pregnant, and eviction looms. Desperate for cash, he reluctantly agrees to participate in a beta test for eeChat, an advanced AI assistant developed by tech giant Nucleeus. Marketed as the most personable and intuitive AI to date, the chatbot, which calls itself Serena, quickly proves to be more insightful and unpredictable than expected. As the film and test unfolds entirely on Chris’s computer screen, what starts as a simple task spirals into a surreal, emotionally charged exchange between man and machine. The deeper Chris goes, the more the line blurs between convenience and control, companionship and manipulation. With the clock ticking and his life at a crossroads, Chris must decide how much of himself he’s willing to surrender to Serena, and to the future she represents